Composite metal pile.



PATENTED AUG. 21,-1906.

W. S TUBBLEBINE. V COMPOSITE METAL PILE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26.1905.

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COMPOSITE METAL PILE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 21, 1906.

Application filed September 25, 1905. Serial No. 279,996.

To a whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LWILLIAM STUBBLEBINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bethlehem, in the county of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Composite Metal Pile, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the art of working up Waste metal into bars, and has for its object to provide a novel form of box to contain waste metal for heating and then rolling the same into a solid bar. It is also proposed to form the box of channel-bars and to enable the convenient assemblage of the channel bars, so as to form a box into which the waste metal may be placed without any liability of the channel-bars falling apart during the filling of the box and to insure the integrity of the box and its contents when being handled in running the same through a furnace and afterward subjecting the heated pile to a roll- %ngmill for compressing the pile into a solid A very important feature of the invention resides in the fact that when the channel bars are assembled to form a box they are mutually interlocked against looseness and separation, thereby obviating the necessity of tying or otherwise fastening the channelbars, which materially facilitates the preparation of the pile preparatory to subjecting the same to a furnace and enables the convenient handling thereof in a continuous furnace and then subjecting the heated pile to a rollingmill.

l/Vith these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claim without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pile built up in accordance with the present invention, the waste metal being in the nature of bars. Fig. 2 is a similar view wherein the waste metal is in the nature of plates.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures of the drawm s.

n carrying out the present invention I employ two duplicate channel-bars, (designated A and 13,) the lower channel-bar A being supported upon its base with its longitudinal flanges 1 rising therefrom, while the other channel-bar B is inverted, with its lon gitudinal flanges 2 resting upon the tops of the flanges of the bottom or base channelbar. Prior to placing the upper channelbar upon the lower channel-bar a pair of straight flat muck-bars C in the nature of flat metallic plates are placed within the channel-bar A against the inner faces of the flanges thereon with their lower edges supported upon theback or base of the lower channel-bar and their upper edge portions rising above the tops of the side flanges 1 for a distance equal to the widths of the side flanges 2 of the upper channel-bar B, as indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings. After the base channel-bar and the two side muckbars have thus been assembled to form a box the scrap and waste metal (designated in general D) is placed in the box until the lat ter is filled up to the top edges of the side muck-bars C, whereupon the upper channelbar is placed astraddle of the upper projecting portions of the side muck-bars C in the manner shown in Fig. 2, thereby completing the pile, which is now in condition for subjection to a furnace and then to a rolling mill.

It will be here explained that the flanges 1 and 2 of the channel-bars are disposed at substantially right angles to the backs of the respective bars, and each flan e preferably has a Width equal to substantially onehalf of the width of one of the side muck-bars 0, whereby the side muck-bars are snugly clamped between the scrap and waste metal and the longitudinal flanges 1 of the lower channel-bar A, whereby looseness and accidental displacement of the side muck-bars is prevented during the filling of the box. Moreover, when the upper channel-bar is placed astraddle of the side muck-bars C with its flanges resting upon the flanges of the lower channel-bar the several muck-bars are connected in a very simple and efficient manner without the employment of extraneous fastenin means and the composite pile may be handled without liability of the parts becoming separated. It will of course be understood that the sides of the channelbars should come into mutual contact Whenever possible, and in any event they should lie in close proximity to one another, so as to insure the stability of the box.

In Fig. 1 the waste metal is in the form of bars, and the muck-bars C, which are anchored between the flanges of the lower channel-bars and the waste metal, constitute stops or interlocking devices to prevent lat eral separation of the channel-bars, and thus maintain the integrity of the box.

. In Fig. 2 the waste material is in the nature of plates which are assembled in piles with the plates of each pile disposed at substantially right angles to those of the next adjacent pile, care being taken to have the plates of the intermediate piles E extend across the joint between the top and bottom channel-bars, whereby the plates of said piles constitute muck-bars lapping the joints between the channel-bars to prevent lateral separation of said channel-bars in substan-* tially the same manner as described in Fig. 1.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is A waste-metal pile comprising a lower channel-b ar having its flanges rising from the back thereof, an upper channel-bar having depending flanges and associated with the lower channel-bar to form a box, the outer edges of their corresponding flanges being in close proximity, waste metal within the box, and muck-bars lapping the joints between the channel-bars and held against the flanges of said channel-bars by the waste metal, the upper ends of the flanges of the lower channel-bar terminating approximately midway between the upper and lower edges of the mu ck-b ars In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own -I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM STUBBLEBINE.

l/Vitnesses:

CHARLES WEAVER, ED. F. GRAY. 

